Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Hydrotaea sp. (was Diptera to ID #19)
Posted by Jordi Clavell on 12-10-2012 08:56
#1
Could someone help me identifying these fly?
The photo was made near Barcelona, Catalonia, on 1.4.2008.
Thanks!
Edited by Jordi Clavell on 22-10-2012 06:07
Posted by Sara21392 on 13-10-2012 17:26
#2
Reflection is too much, Maybe Lonchaeidae???
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 14-10-2012 20:06
#3
Muscidae, female
Hydrotaea subgenus
Ophyra.
Posted by Iain MacGowan on 15-10-2012 09:51
#4
Steohane
it looks like a Lonchaeid to me! broad black/blue thorax, no obvious setae on tibiae - are you seeiing something that I am not? .. best wishes . Iain
http://lonchaeidae.myspecies.info
Posted by Stephane Lebrun on 15-10-2012 19:47
#5
Hi Iain,
there is a complete suture on scutum, the subcosta is well separated from R1 and the tarsi seems too long for any Lonchaeidae.
This is really the habitus of
Hydrotaea ignava group, with a long frontal triangle, and, lightening the picture, the classical Muscidae chaetotaxy is guessable.
Maybe Jordi can submit another picture which can remove suspicions...
Posted by Jordi Clavell on 22-10-2012 06:06
#6
Thanks, Stephane... This is the only picture I have of this fly.